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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>, Michal Kubecek <mkubecek@suse.cz>,
	dsahern@kernel.org, pablo@netfilter.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Genetlink per cmd policies
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 2020 21:03:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <563a2334a42cc5f33089c2bff172d92e118575ea.camel@sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200930120129.620a49f0@kicinski-fedora-pc1c0hjn.dhcp.thefacebook.com>

On Wed, 2020-09-30 at 12:01 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2020 20:36:24 +0200 Johannes Berg wrote:
> > On Wed, 2020-09-30 at 09:44 -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > 
> > > I started with a get_policy() callback, but I didn't like it much.
> > > Static data is much more pleasant for a client of the API IMHO.  
> > 
> > Yeah, true.
> > 
> > > What do you think about "ops light"? Insufficiently flexible?  
> > 
> > TBH, I'm not really sure how you'd do it?
> 
> There are very few users who actually access ops, I was thinking that
> callers to genl_get_cmd() should declare a full struct genl_ops on the
> stack (or in some context, not sure yet), and then genl_get_cmd() will
> fill it in.
> 
> If family has full ops it will do a memcpy(); if the ops are "light" it
> can assign the right pointers.
> 
> Plus it can propagate the policy and maxattr from family if needed in
> both cases.

Oh, so you were thinking you'd have to sort of decide on the *family*
level whether you want "light" or "heavy" ops?

Hm. I guess you could even have both?

	struct genl_ops *ops;
	struct genl_ops_ext *extops;

and then search both arrays, no need for memcpy/pointer assignment?

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-30 19:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-30 15:49 Genetlink per cmd policies Jakub Kicinski
2020-09-30 16:03 ` Michal Kubecek
2020-09-30 16:11   ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-09-30 16:06 ` Johannes Berg
2020-09-30 16:17   ` Johannes Berg
2020-09-30 16:44     ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-09-30 18:36       ` Johannes Berg
2020-09-30 18:42         ` Michal Kubecek
2020-09-30 18:42           ` Johannes Berg
2020-09-30 19:01         ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-09-30 19:03           ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2020-09-30 19:14             ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-09-30 19:15               ` Johannes Berg
2020-09-30 19:46                 ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-09-30 20:13                   ` Johannes Berg
2020-09-30 20:47                     ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-09-30 23:38                       ` Andrew Lunn
2020-10-01  0:23                         ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-10-01  1:53                           ` Andrew Lunn
2020-10-01 15:50                             ` Jakub Kicinski
2020-10-01 15:52                               ` Johannes Berg
2020-09-30 16:18   ` Jakub Kicinski

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